Spin the Bottle is awfully chilly, Big Chilly, if you know what I mean.

Actually, while it's sold as a "five friends get back together" picture, Spin the Bottle is hardly that. When the high school loser invites his tormentors to his woodsy pad 10 years after they've graduated, one might think something is amiss. Alas, our four unsuspecting dupes figure, "What the hell?" and head out to the vacation spot for a long weekend. Of course, there's no way Jonah (Holter Graham) has anything up his sleeve...

When I heard that Al Pacino was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, part of me was extremely skeptical. I was fearful he would bellow every other word ("If YOU prick US!"), which has been his acting technique for over a decade. Or, perhaps he would lapse into the Foghorn Leghorn accent that made The Recruit such a hoot.

It's been a crap shoot with the great actor for some time. Watching Pacino is like watching a beloved, over the hill athlete sticking around. He hobbles, the crispness of his movements isn't there, and the mixture of luck and confidence he once had is just a pleasant memory. More often than not, you just hope he just doesn't stumble. You just want a glimmer of what once was.